It might be interesting to start a conversation on the appropriate comm there about whichever rule is being enforced (check the modlog) and challenge the rule.

Yeah, there was some point to it back in Aristotle's day, but you can tell how much someone doesn't know about logic from the degree to which they lean on pat lists of informal fallacies. Formal fallacies, as in those produced by incorrect inference in classical logic (or an argument that can be accurately reduced to classical logic), are infinite in a similar way to how "wrong answers to math equations" is an infinite category. "Informal fallacies" are a catalogue of rhetorical tricks and cognitive biases that it is good to be aware of but which don't have very much to do with logic as a field.

That's hard to say, since the meme began in China, but the widespread adoption in the US probably was connected to racist appeal

Wow, that's pretty pathetic

Of course, I don’t feel comfortable actively dissuading the students from going (they get enough pressure from parents and other staff at the school), but sometimes I wonder if I should.

It might be worth just mentioning about your perspective on the racism issue, but you're right to avoid adding pressure.

I'm the first one to say that an uncritical and crassly-applied "free speech" ideology is deleterious, but it's the First Amendment that doesn't apply, not the concept of Free Speech itself. Under the Constitution, you are free not to apply the concept of Free Speech yourself since the First Amendment doesn't apply to your moderation, but that does not answer the question of whether you should or not.

Of course, my answer is that some speech is worth protecting and some is not and questions of natural rights have nothing to do with that, so the chauvinistic redditors posting social credit score memes that were tired years ago and thoroughly debunked don't need a platform, but that's just my take on the matter.

Oh yeah, and the "orc" meme is clearly racist, but that's why I worded my original question the way I did.

Thank you for your time and have a good day.

How are they leaning towards tone policing?

The rules lean towards "civility" over the actual content of what is said, which left it vulnerable to "just asking questions" types. It's being revised after a spat with a TERF who took advantage of those rules.

Have you ever actually watched the video? Really makes you think 🤔

There's a very conscious effort from the radlib cliques to close off lemmygrad